Posted on 07/23/2017 9:21:33 PM PDT by Lorianne
Sex trafficking involving migrants fleeing to Italy by sea increased by nearly 600 percent over the past three years -- particularly among young girls -- a United Nations' agency said Friday.
The International Organization for Migration issued a report saying most sex trafficking victims came from Nigeria and increasingly more are younger girls "already subject to violence and abuse on their way to Europe."
The report estimates 80 percent of girls arriving from Nigeria are potential victims of sexual exploitation. About 1,400 girls traveled from Nigeria to Italy in 2014, a number that increased to more than 11,000 last year.
"Trafficking is a transnational crime that devastates the lives of thousands of people and is the cause of untold suffering," said Federico Soda, director of the IOM Coordinating Office for the Mediterranean. "This is a theme we have been working on for years, committing to protect, prevent and collaborate with the authorities dealing with organized crime."
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Unexpected!
The NGOs are now the taxi service to deliver Africans into EU prostitution, gangs, drug dealing, etc.
Sounds racist to me.
still trying to wrap my mind around why anyone would want an ‘frikin prostitute. yikes.
And from a 3rd world country?????
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